Hi, Bruce Byfield wrote: > If possible, I'd like to get a quote about how Debian plans to respond. > By putting together a Java-free package? By using a free implementation
This is what we currently do for 1.1.x. > of Java? By some other means? Since Debian is a distribution that is That's what we want to do in future when it is possible; gcj-4.0 (in experimental currently) can build many parts of OpenOffice.org after some patches for gcj support were made. (No idea about interpreting with gij, though) However, that would mean we'll get a dependency on the experimental libgcc1 so the package won't be installable (and not buildable anywayn since we need gcj-4.0) in plain unstable. Not fine. Well... For a upload to experimental we probably could try but it's really suboptimal. > And if anyone on the Debian OpenOffice Team would care to make other > comments, I'd appreciate hearing them, by all means. This is my comment. Probably not suitable for a official quote but the comment of one of the two maintainers. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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